Comb for hair cutting



May 3,1927.

' l ,62 7,408 r F. ROBERTS 00MB FOR HAIR CUTTING Filed June 7 26. 1925 Inventor,

' Attorney.

Patented May 3, 1927.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRED ROBERTS, F PORTLAND, OREGON.

COMB FOR HAIR CUTTING.

Application filed June 26, 1925. Serial No. 39,831.

This invention relates to an im rovement minally formed at the ends of the enlarge- 40 in combs, particularly designed or use by ments to provide comb teeth. These comb barbers and others who have frequent need teeth are of different degrees of fineness, as for combs of different degrees of fineness. for example, the teeth shown at 3 being In barber's use, particularly in cutting hair, finer than the teeth shown at 4. The sides it is frequently necessary to use combs of of the handle in the plane of the teeth taper 45 different fineness, and while ordinarily a from a portion inwardly of the enlargement comb having differently spaced teeth may be to the rounded terminals of the comb teeth, employed, the usual custom is to exchange these tapered faces 5 providing for the conthe comb being used for one of finer or venient introduction of the implement into coarser teeth, as required, This necessitates the hair of the head without obstruction, 0

afrequent change of combs by the barber, and also insuring that the comb teeth proper requiring not only two combs but entailing shall betapered on all sides, as is usual.

a loss of time. In the use of the implement, the barber, The present invention is designed to prowith the teeth at one end in use, and desirvide in a single unitary structure two combs ing to use the teeth at the other end, will of different degrees of fineness and of suffisimply reverse the implement in his hand, cie-nt length for barber's use, the combs bewithout loss of time and without the necesing connected by a handle portion of consity of selecting another comb. The barber venient size, so that either comb may be has thus at his selection combs of diflerent readily positioned for use by a simple redegrees of fineness at all times conveniently to versal on the part of the barber. available, and either of which may be used The invention is illustrated in the accomby a simple reversal of the position of the panying drawings, in which: implement. Fig. I is a plan view of the improved The comb teethproper are preferably of comb. a comparatively restricted length, as in the 65 Fig. II is an edge view of the same. use for which the invention is primarily de- Fig. III is a section on line III--III of signed, a short length of teeth only, that is,

Fig. I. I a short longitudinal length of comb is in use The improved comb comprises a unitary at one time,

structure preferably of hard rubber or other Vhat is claimed as new is:

appropriate material, including a central A barbers implement comprising a handlehandle portion 1, of uniform sectional area of uniform rectangular dimensions throughthroughout its length and of a size to be conout its middle portion, each end having its veniently grasped in the hand, the width bewidth increased uniformly beyond the haning preferably greater than the thickness to dle andits depth uniformly tapered to form T5 prevent casual turning of the device when operative portions.

in use. At the respective ends, the handle portion is laterally enlarged at 2, and ter- FRED ROBERTS. 

